Come, Holy Ghost, thine influence shed

Come, Holy Ghost, thine influence shed. Charles Wesley* (1707-1788). First published in Hymns on the Lord’s Supper (1745) in two 4-line stanzas, in the section entitled ‘As it [the Sacrament] is a Sign and a Means of Grace’. It was not included in any subsequent Methodist hymnbook, apart from that of the United Methodist Free Churches (1889), until MHB. The hymn has not been extensively used outside British Methodism but appears in The Cambridge Hymnal (1967), WOV, and A&MCP. The full, original text can be found in HP: Come, Holy Ghost, thine influence shed,  And realize the sign;Thy life infuse into the bread,  Thy power into the wine. Effectual let the tokens prove  And made, by...